Example sentences of "i picked up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
| 2 | I picked up a dental chisel and resolved to sell my life dearly . |
| 3 | Recently , I picked up a young bird which one of my cats had caught ; I held it in my hands in the hope that it might survive . |
| 4 | I picked up a young man on my first journey out of Durham about 6.30 on the morning . |
| 5 | Some years ago , walking along a riverside with a Pakistani biochemist , I picked up a flat stone and bounced it across the water . |
| 6 | The waiters were all busy at that moment so I picked up a full glass from the table and fought my way to where she was holding court in the middle of the mass — standing up , of course . |
| 7 | ‘ The first time I picked up a 12 bore , it was bigger than me and the men all laughed . |
| 8 | I picked up a likely length and laid it in the boat . |
| 9 | I picked up The New Principles of Gardening , a leather-bound tome by Batty Langley ( d. 1751 ) and wondered when she would have been b . |
| 10 | I picked up the nearest coil and began to gather it up , but whereas in the summer heat the pipe had been soft and flexible , it now had the consistency of a steel cable and was like trying to lift a bedframe designed by Salvador Dali . |
| 11 | I picked up the empty bread wrapper . |
| 12 | I picked up the crumpled cheque and spread it out , looking at it with the sort of hopeless hunger with which one admires things in the window of Fortnum & Mason . |